An 11-year-old Queensland girl suffering from a rare disease was forced to have surgery after being hit in her stomach during an alleged bullying incident at a public primary school.

The girl was shoved with a water bottle by another student during the May incident at the Toowoomba school, which dislodged a gastronomy button in her stomach, her mother Julie Phillips told Nine.com.au.

The mother claims the incident was not an isolated one and that schoolyard bullies had been physically and emotionally abusing her daughter for the past six years, with the school failing to discipline the students involved.

According to Ms Phillips, the only punishment the bully received from the school after dislodging her daughter’s gastronomy button was missing out on an end-of-term reward of going on a jumping castle.

Nine.com.au has contacted the school and Queensland’s Department of Education and Training for comment but is yet to receive a response.

Ms Phillips’s daughter has a rare condition – similar to Hirschsprung’s disease – which has left her with paralysed bowels and requires her to wear an ileostomy bag that brings her small intestine to the surface of her stomach.

She is also autistic and has delayed social skills, but is not intellectually impaired.

Ms Phillips said the bullying started out as minor incidents and got worse from when her daughter was in Year 1.

“At first it wasn’t too bad. It started out as little things like kids calling her names,” she said.

“She had a nasal gastric tube in. So they started off with the whole calling her ‘booger face’ and all that kind of stuff.”

Ms Phillips said over the years different students had physically assaulted her daughter, with one punching her in the stoma (the opening on her stomach) in Year 1, and last year another pulling out a fistful of her hair.

The girl's gastronomy button after it was dislodged. ()

Neither of the students were disciplined over the incidents, Ms Phillips said.

In the incident this May, the student approached her daughter on the school oval and squirted her stomach with a water bottle, she said.

“(My daughter) turned around and said to her, ‘I’m not allowed to get my stomach wet’. She lifted up her shirt to show her the button and the bag and said, ‘I’m not allowed to get it wet because I’ve just had surgery’,” she said.

“This girl then went off and got her friends and came back and started squirting her again and hit her in the stomach with her water bottle.”

Ms Phillips said her daughter had an “extremely high pain threshold” and while she did not indicate she was in pain, she approached staff at the school and told them she had been bullied.

“My daughter has autism so for her to approach a teacher is a very big deal for her. They didn’t even ask her if she was ok or anything,” she said.

“They sent her back to class and it was the library teacher who noticed the blood on her shirt. So they then rang me at 2pm, about an hour later,” she said.

Ms Phillips took her daughter to Toowoomba hospital where tests showed the gastronomy button had been dislodged and pushed up into her abdominal wall.

Ms Phillips says her daughter has been bullied for the past six years. ()

Her daughter then underwent surgery at Brisbane’s Lady Cilento hospital the following day to replace the button, she said.

Ms Phillips claims that the school did not return her calls for five days after the incident, and when she finally met with staff she was told her daughter “must have dislodged it herself”.

However, in subsequent discussions with staff, it was acknowledged that the button had been dislodged by the other student.

“The girl’s only punishment was missing the jumping castle for end of term rewards.

“There were no suspensions, not even an apology to my daughter. No mediation between the girls to try and calm the situation down, nothing.”

“They have done nothing about the bullying. It takes all my energy just to be civil and polite with the school because I am so angry.”

Ms Phillips said she lodged a complaint with the Department of Education and Training after the incident, who, after meetings with her, organised an aide to shadow her daughter at lunchtime to prevent her from being physically assaulted.

However, her daughter continued to be intimidated by the bullies, and a few weeks ago when the same girl who dislodged her gastronomy button gestured at her with her fist, she snapped and chased her.

Her daughter did not touch the girl, who was removed by teachers into a classroom, but was punished anyway with a six-day suspension, she said.

Unfortunately, removing her daughter from the school was not a viable option, Ms Phillips said.

“I have MS (multiple sclerosis). We actually moved to a house to rent across the road from the school because I was getting multiple phone calls a day from the school and having to go backwards and forwards. I need to be in walking distance because some days I can’t drive or function properly,” she said.

Ms Phillips claims her daughter’s bullying is not an isolated incident at the school and Nine.com.au has been contacted by another family who say their daughter, who is in Year 2, has also been bullied at the same school.

“My daughter has been bullied by the same child since prep and it is still happening. This child swears at her, kicks and hits her with a tennis racquet and in prep attacked her with thumb tacks and nothing is done,” the mother said.